Communists: The Era of Many Romes

A month ago he was anathema: the Yellow Peril, the shameless Pervert of
True Marxism-Leninism, the terrible Trotskyite Deviationist and
Splitter. Last week, as he stood bundled in a greatcoat and karakul cap
atop Lenin's Tomb watching the rockets roll by, Red China's Chou En-lai
presumably was still all these things to the fallen Nikita Khrushchev,
who was nowhere to be seen, and possibly to many other Russians who
have little love for the Chinese. But officially he was the honored
guest from the great fraternal Chinese People's Republic, and this...